A Horological Peacock Feeding . . . Or? Caption Competition #35

Believe it or not, this stylized peacock pecking at a bowl full of ears of wheat is actually a fully functional horological component. The “bowl” is a cam, while the peacock controls the instantaneous second time zone jump mechanism of the Fabergé DTZ Visionnaire.

But what other story might explain what’s going on here? Could it actually be a new avian constellation in the night sky? Please share your ideas in the comments below.

This newly discovered constellation called Peacock Feeding was in the news recently as the Russians picked up a radio signal from its direction, which intriguingly turned out to be playing a loop of old re-runs of ‘Star Trek.’